The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-11-03
LORD FACETS STORY.
The English VagabonG sharp Once
More at Large.

More at Large.
Lord Paget, the counterfeit English
nobleman, alias Baron Matrey, Monnero,
Ballentyne, and half dozen others, whose
adventures North and South created so
much stir last summer and who made Sa-
vannah a brief visit, has been released from
Jail in New Orleans, where lie has been for
sometime Before leaving he told the story
of his life, refusing, however, to give his
true name, because in the light of his adj
ventures during the past few months it
would reveal his identity.
After recting the history of his boyhood,
which is about the same as that of the aver
age boy, he told how at the age of Is his
father sent him to Cambridge, and lie be-
came an undergraduate of Magdelene
College with an allowance of G., 900 per an
mum (S5,00U. He soon got into fast set,
and what with Newmarket being near, and
book makers who gave one good tips, money
lenders, etc, his thou Sand was nowhere. lie
was finally expelled from college and his
father sent him adrift with 900 and told
him to leave England and never set foot on
English soil again.
Il lost ,OUG at gambling" he SAID "be-
fore l got out OF Europe, and arrived in
Australia with less than Fl 500 in my pos
session. This, of course, | soor squandered
away, trying Ou6 anu duOJHeT.
and at last had not sou left, when | met
an old school friend, named Bayley, who
obtained ME a passage to England and lent
me SO. | turned up at home and had
stormy interview with my father, who said
/ should never see another penny of his
money before his death, and then all that
was in his power he would leave away from
me. He eventually, however, told me to
call on his solicitors. The next day / did,
md tol1 l
never to return home during my fathers
life | should have an income of goo a year
unless | would agree to cut off the entail.
in which case | should receive the sum of
el00. 900 down; refused. NV father hav-
ing three entailed estates and property in
London that must descend to me, having
| altogether an income therefrom of 5000
per annum. | vas not insane enough to
sell my birthright for mess of pottage."
Paget said that he gets the goo sent in
January to any address or any name in the
world He finally drifted into Germany
where he met his friend Bayley, who was
incorporating under the name Paget He
had been hiding from the English detec-
tives for some months, and had baffied
them by enlisting, but he had finally seen
his opportunity and got aboard a boat and
got safely away.
81 next came to America said Paget.
'and here, again, my iil-luck came on, and
when l arrived in Toronto, under the name
OF Ballentyne, l kept up appearances, and l
got into society, but left in debt. and taking
a leaf out of Bayley's book, cashed a check
on bank / had no account at
| soon got into the way of ii:
have cashed in New York and
Newport eleven in ALL They have
been the first, and as sure as there is
heaven above, they will be the last Paget
said he is now going TO Mexico and South
America to retrieve his fallen name and
fortunes. Relative TO the aliases he assumed
he said that after leaving Bayley at Cologne,
having travelled that tar in company, he
Went to Weisbadeu, Nankfort-on-the-M Main,
Heidelburg, Basic, Nantes, Monte Carlo,
Cannes, AK le Baines Turin, Florence,
Pisa. Leghorn, Rome and Naples under the
name of Paget. AT Palermo ard from
| there to New York he was known as Baron
Matrey; in Toronto, Can, as Ballentyne.
Returning to the United States. at Larch-
mont, near New York, be again assumed
the name of Paget, and sailed under these
colors until he reached Jacksonville, when
he became Woodland now he has no name